final exam Flashcards
What did Florence Nightingale do?
She was the first nursing theorist, delineated the scope of nursing practice as separate from medicine.
- helping people deal with day to day life events and choices that affect their health as well as recover from insults to the body
What did Peplau do?
She identified that nurse patient relationships are central to all nursing care
Other theoretical concepts include:
- phases of the relationship
- anxiety as a human response
- pattern integration
What did Carl Rogers do?
He talked about person-centred therapy, main theoretical concepts include:
- congruence
- unconditional positive regard
- empathy
as well as responsive and action dimensions
What did Ida Jean Orlando do?
She talked about the dynamic nurse-patient relationship.
revolves around:
- patient immediate needs for help
- nurse’s responsibility is to understand the meaning of the specific behaviour of the patient
- nursing process is based on individuals actions
What did Jean Watson do?
Created the theory of human caring.
- a moral framework, nursing is a moral obligation to care
- human care and love are central to the theory
- a broader societal mission (nurses care for self, others, communities, earth)
What did Doane and Varcoe do?
Talked about relational inquiry
- made of relational orientation and inquiring action
- helps you determine effective action
- a way of focusing your attention
